Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

XX The Dead Are in the Right and the Living Are Not in the Wrong The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a thousand mysterious crashes in the air, the breath of armed masses set in movement in the streets which were not visible, the intermittent gallop of cavalry, the heavy shock of artillery on the march, the firing by squads, and the cannonades crossing each other in the labyrinth of Paris, the smokes o…